Welcome to Issue #6 of the Weekly Dev Bytes.

Every week, we bring you the key builder updates and developments from across the Ethereum ecosystem. Let's dive into it.

• Sort Transactions in Ascending Order on the Advanced Filter and Block Transactions page
• Stylus Contract Verification: Verify deployed Stylus contracts on Arbiscan and Arbiscan Nova
• MEV-Protected Transactions Searchable while Pending

• Get Address Funded By
• Get Block Transactions Count by BlockNo

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• Coinbase introduces x402 - a new open source payments protocol built on HTTP rails
• MetaMask Extension support for 7702 is live on Ethereum Mainnet
• Stripe introduces stablecoin financial accounts
• Opening Bell: bringing public equity onchain
• Ethereum Magicians discuss community consensus and ACD working groups
• PumpTheGas updated to suggest a block gas limit of 60mn
• The first Pectra-based whitehat rescue
• Lido DAO initiates emergency vote to swap compromised oracle
• Multiverse Finance: parallel financial universes for speculative trading on future events
• Slides from today's The Latest In Defi Research presentation
• Dune report on Crypto Wallets 2025
• Curve switches to curve.finance domain name after curve[.]fi got hijacked
• Pier Two introduces Pectra Staking Manager, a public good for Ethereum stakers

• Polygon announces CDK OP Stack configuration, with native Agglayer interop
• ZKsync is now fully EVM Equivalent
• Taiko DAO is now live on mainnet, marking a new era of decentralized governance
• ZKsync introduces solx - a powerful new Solidity-to-EVM compiler
• Polygon introduces VaultBridge: a new revenue lego for EVM chains
• The OP-Stack Superchain just upgraded to Isthmus, including Prague/Electra functionality

Ethereum numbers for the past week:

• Transactions: 9.4M (up 8.16%)
• Account Abstraction Transactions: 12,268 (up 27.54%)
• Median Base Fee: 1.586 gwei, Max Base Fee: 43.37 gwei
• Total Burnt Fees: 2,825.04 ETH (up 442.69%)
• Total Blob Fees: 9.62 ETH (down 91.02%)